On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
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> From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
> 
> The commit 8811930dc74a503415b35c4a79d14fb0b408a361 ("splice: missing user
> pointer access verification") added access_ok() to copy_from_user_mmap_sem()
> which only ensures we can copy the struct iovecs from userspace to the kernel
> but we also must check whether we can access the actual memory region pointed
> to by the struct iovec to close the local root exploit.
> 
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> ---
> Bastian, can I have your Signed-off-by for this, please? Oliver, Niki, can 
> you please confirm this closes the hole?

Pekka, I confirm that it also closes the hole once backported to 2.6.22.

Willy

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